On Apr 13, 2011, at 8:22 AM, Jerry Foote wrote:

> Can anyone point me to a free tool to parse a email message. I was surprised

> at the varieties of ways that messages are composed. I some guidance as to

> how to locate the message, specifically what defines the start and end of a

> message. I can see all of the tags for From, To, Subjects, For and some

> others I'm not interested in.

OK, I gave everyone a couple of days to chime in, but since they didn't...

Use Python! It has an email module that handles all of that stuff for you! http://docs.python.org/library/email.html

(OK, you *knew* that was coming, right?)

-- Ed Leafe

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